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Ports & Shipping
Ports & Shipping
Shipping Overview: Initiatives across segments for holistic future growth
The performance of the Indian shipping industry has been below par in the past year. A number of shipping companies are grappling with plunging profits and ever-increasing losses. The fate of shipyards is rather bleak, […]
Ports & Shipping
Reviving Growth: Initiatives to promote domestic shipping industry
The Indian shipping industry continues to face difficult times. Shipping companies are being forced to contend with plunging profits and ever-widening losses resulting from a long spell of weak freight rates. The government, however, is […]
Spotlight
New Game Plan: NITI Aayog sets development agenda for the next three years
Recently, in April 2017, NITI Aayog released a three-year action agenda laying out India’s development strategy. Infrastructure is a key component of the action plan which is for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. For infrastructure, […]
Ports & Shipping
Ports & Shipping
Untapped Potential: Development plans for coastal shipping
Despite India’s long coastline of 7,517 km with 12 major and around 200 non-major ports, the coastal shipping segment remains severely underutilised. At present, only 7 per cent of the country’s domestic cargo is transported […]